Cathy Rush becomes ninth female coach in Basketball HOF
Hours before the NCAA Men’s championship final in San Antonio, former Immacualta University basketball coach Cathy Rush was voted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. From The Sports Network via KSAT.com.
Rush, previously a finalist five times, led Immaculata University to three consecutive AIAW national championships from 1972 to 1974. Rush propelled Immaculata, and women’s basketball, into the national spotlight when the Mighty Macs appeared on national television in 1975, a first for women’s basketball. She won 149 games and lost only 15 in just seven seasons, good for a .908 winning percentage.
“I’ve waited for that phone call a few times. I had lost more nominations than I’ve lost games,” Rush joked. “I’m just so excited.”
Congrats to Coach Rush. You can read more from Immaculata’s press release.
Tags: basketball hall of fame, college-basketball, hall of fame, NCAA, womens-basketball
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1 opinion for Cathy Rush becomes ninth female coach in Basketball HOF
Bob
Apr 15, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Is the “Mother of Womens Basketball”
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